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[apocalypsos]

Do you know how long it took me to find out how much one million dollars weighs? Internet, you're disappointing me of late. *is annoyed*

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[acetal.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Nice link! Because really volume is more important than weight.

The proportions of the various denominations would probably be important too, if you were talking about something like a bank vault. If you were talking about a casino vault, then there'd probably be a higher proportion of denominations of greater value. Obviously, if it was someone walking into a bank and declaring, "I would like to withdraw...one million dollars." then you wouldn't need to take it into account.

The U.S. Treasury also only prints $100 bills.

Wasn't able to find the proportions of U.S. denominations in circulation, but by using the table on this page for Australian denominations and some quick calculations, I worked out the following.

$10 = 10%
$20 = 16.5%
$50 = 39%
$100 = 18%

So assuming it's similar for the U.S. and that you wouldn't bother with loose change, you'd be better off taking the $50 value as an average and doubling the amount of money you'd have to lug around based on the $100 calculations.